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An antigovernment protestor reacts as he and other demonstrators shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen's embattled president has accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the Arab world. Muhammed Muheisen/AP

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky above a home in Kenai, Alaska. According to the National Weather Service, a minor magnetic storm is affecting Earth’s atmosphere. The University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute is calling for a moderate chance of more northern lights sightings tonight for people living in northern latitudes. M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion/AP

Children bowl at St. Ambrose church in Abobo, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a temporary refuge for people fleeing from clashes between forces loyal to incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo and his rival, Alassane Ouattara. Security is deteriorating, with gun battles between rival forces most of last week and wider hostilities resuming. Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

A woman cries during the funeral of Showkat Ali Khan, a Kashmiri civilian who succumbed to his injuries after a grenade explosion in Srinagar, Kashmir. Police said two civilians, including Khan, and two policemen were injured when suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at a group of policemen who were on patrol. Danish Ismail/Reuters

A Roma flower vendor wipes the plastic sheets she uses to protect herself and the merchandise from freezing on a cold night in Bucharest, Romania. Vadim Ghirda/AP

Indian models wait for their turn to audition for the upcoming Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi. Sixty-one Indian designers will showcase their creations during the fashion show, scheduled to be held from April 6 to 10. Manish Swarup/AP

A washroom attendant chants slogans supporting Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi at a hospital in Tripoli during a guided government tour for the press. Chris Helgren/Reuters

Residents sit at a major traffic intersection as New Zealanders stopped at 12:51 p.m. local to mark two minutes silence exactly one week after last Tuesday's magnitude-6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Police said the death toll from the quake was more than 150 and was expected to rise further. Around 200 people are still listed as missing. Mark Baker/AP

Tokyo Sky Tree, a new broadcast tower which is still under construction in Tokyo, reached the height of 1,971 feet today and became the world's tallest freestanding tower, outgrowing the 1,968-foot Canton Tower in China's southwestern city of Guanzhou, operator Tobu Tower Sky Tree Co. said. Kyodo News/AP

A man enjoys the warm springlike weather on a bench at the frozen lake Zeller See in Zell am See in the Austrian province of Salzburg. Meteorologists predict warm temperatures for the upcoming days. Kerstin Joensson/AP

New Libyan recruits line up as they listen to an instructor after signing up for the forces against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi at a training base in Benghazi, eastern Libya. Kevin Frayer/AP

Giant pandas play in the snow at Jinbao Park in Weifang, Shandong Province, China. China Daily/Reuters

A Kashmiri student returns home after attending school on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. Schools in Indian Kashmir opened after a three-month-long winter break. Mukhtar Khan/AP

Muslim boys study in a class at an Islamic school where they live and study the Quran in the village of Lam Mai in the troubled Yala province in Thailand. Yala is one of three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia where more than 4,300 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have been killed in a low-level insurgency since 2004. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Thai workers fleeing the violence in Libya wait to be processed moments after crossing into Tunisia at the border crossing of Dehiba. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

Romanian military retirees chant antigovernment slogans during a protest in front of government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania. Up to 3,000 military retirees singing war songs have marched in cold weather to protest the slashing of their pensions after Romania's cash-strapped government passed an ordinance in January recalculating military pensions based on the average national salary, not according to individual contributions. Vadim Ghirda/AP

A worker walks past new excavators at a Lonking factory in Shanghai, China. Chinese manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in at least half a year in February, according to a pair of surveys, as the government's sustained campaign to tame inflation weighed on industrial activity. Aly Song/Reuters

Astronauts Steve Bowen (l.), Michael Barratt (c.), and Alvin Drew work in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station as they prepare for the start of the mission's first spacewalk in this photo provided by NASA. NASA/Reuters

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Hardline Islamist insurgents, including the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, now control a second Syrian province after Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State group. But ISIS isn't allied with the Islamists who tookover Idlib.

ByMariam Karouny, ReutersMarch 28, 2015

Islamist groups including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front - but not ISIS - have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday.